This symposium is designed to be full of thought-provoking talks that will help to blueprint a ten-year plan for future research in Animal Breeding and Genetics. This involves the future of single-step genomic evaluations, selection for complex traits like mortality/morbidity and resilience/robustness, possible negative effects of genomic selection, and other relevant topics. Discussions will also involve experiences with machine learning for phenotype and breeding value predictions, high throughput phenotypes, gene editing, and sequence data. Speakers will be from academia and industry The symposium will celebrate Ignacy Misztal’s career and achievements in Animal Breeding and Genetics as he takes his first step toward spending more time on his hobbies and less time at the University of Georgia.
Confirmed Speakers and Topics:
Daniel Gianola / Keith Bertrand / Larry Benyshek: First steps of Ignacy Misztal in the US
Chuck Sattler / Troy Rowan: Issues in the animal industry: Beef and Dairy
Matt Culbertson / Tom Rathje / Jesus Arango / Vivian Breen: Issues in the animal industry: Poultry and Swine
Tom Lawlor: Joint work with Ignacy Misztal over the years: what worked and what did not
Andres Legarra: Experiences with single-step development and other complex models
Tom Druet: Understanding and predicting complex traits using sequence data
Paul VanRaden: Future directions for animal breeders
Agustin Blasco: Complex relationship among traits
Nicolas Bedère: Selection for resilience and robustness
Todd Applegate: Reasons behind poor disease resistance in animal populations
Pete Hansen: Cows and climate change
Tomas Norton: The promise of digital phenotyping
Scott Jackson: What we can learn from plant breeding
Brenda Murdoch: Genomic technologies
Ignacio Aguilar / Ching-Yi Chen / Olga Ravagnolo / Jorge Hidalgo: Lessons learned from Ignacy Misztal
Matias Bermann: BLUPF90 News
Daniela Lourenco: Future at UGA
Registration is now open for the “A single-step Toward the Future” Symposium. Check the details in the link below:
https://nce.ads.uga.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=a_single-step_toward_the_future